THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2015 VOL. 67, ISSUE 8

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CAB brings ‘Halloweek’ activities to campusBy LAUREN SPENCERStaff Writer

In the past CAB has hosted Boo Bash in celebration of Halloween, however with the help of Campus Ministry, SAAC and RHA, they will now be hosting an entire week of spooky fun.

The Halloweek events will kick off on Oct. 26 with Taekwondo Take-downs, followed by Pumpkin Smash-

ing and the Chili Cook-off on Oct. 27, Pumpkin Painting and the Halloween Fun Run/Walk 5K on Oct. 28 and will finish off with the annual Boo Bash from 7-9 p.m. on the Oct 29.

Taekwondo Takedowns, starting at 7 p.m. in the gym, is an event where students will have the opportunity to learn how to defend themselves from monsters and zombies with various different Taekwondo techniques, said

Megan Hemel, CAB president. The class will be taught by Becca

Kopper, a Newman sophomore and Taekwondo black belt. Kopper is cer-tified and teaches self-defense classes outside of Newman.

Pumpkin Smashing and the Chili Cook-off, starting at 4 p.m. on the Quad, is an event CAB and Campus Ministry will be hosting together. Stu

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By JOHN DENNYEditor-In-Chief

This story is a follow-up to the story “SGA letter sparks Cabinet conversation on tuition,” which appeared in the Oct. 1 issue of “The Vantage.”

The Student Government Associa-tion’s resolution to adopt a “fixed tui-tion plan,” which passed at a Sept. 1

SGA meeting, was denied by New-man’s cabinet in a meeting on Sept. 13. The proposal, which was authored by SGA president Brandon Gollhofer, asked for administrators to consider a tuition plan that would stay the same throughout a student’s time spent at Newman.

Gollhofer said that he presented the proposal to the Cabinet last week along with SGA Vice-President Brandi

Boese and Dean of Students Levi Es-ses, and that even though they rejected it, he does not feel it was a waste.

“[It] was a good opportunity for us to go in there and argue our point a lit-tle bit,” Gollhofer said.

He said, though they rejected the fixed tuition proposal, he can under-stand their reasons even if he does not agree with them

“They’re really financially-minded,

and that’s a good thing because you need that to run a university,” he said. “But we’re here to be like, “Well, you know, what about the students?”

Provost Michael Austin said the Cabinet did not accept the proposal be-cause after Vice President for Finance and Administration Jennifer Gantz ran some financial models on the feasibil-ity of a fixed tuition plan they came

President’s Cabinet turns down fixed tuition plan

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STUDENTS DANCE at CAB’s Boo Bash last year. Halloweek adds multiple new events for students to celebrate throughout the week of Halloween. Hank Griggs, Photo Editor

SGA resolution to create fixed tuition declined, Cabinet declares it financially infeasible

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On-campus health facility to be added in upcoming yearsBy KATI BUSHA&E Editor

Administration is taking steps to fund and launch an on-campus stu-dent health facility in the next few years, said Vice President for Student Affairs and Athletic Director, Vic Trilli.

“It’s actually part of the 5-year plan,” Trilli said. “Right now we’re working on identifying how we’re going to fund it. We’ll begin to look at launching some time between fall 2016 and spring 2017.”

Currently, the only health ser-vice offered to students on-campus is through the athletic department. Newman employs two full-time train-ers who are on campus from early in the morning until the evening. Doc-tors are also on-campus at least once a week depending on the athletic sched-ule and during all games. Trilli said that the athletic department makes sure that trainers are accessible to ath-letes at all times when practices are happening.

“Generally speaking it’s for ath-letes,” Trilli said. “But these guys are awesome. They believe in Newman. We’ve got a great arrangement with them so it works. If someone needs help, we give it to them, they just have to let us know.”

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Chorale, Troubadours concert

Newman’s Chorale and Troubadours fall concert, Over the Sea to the Skye, starts at 7 p.m. on Sunday in St. John’s Chapel.

Newman students admission is free. Adult tickets are $7 and all other student tickets are $5.

Pink-Out tail-gate, volleyball game

The pink-out tailgate, sponsored by CAB, will be a free food event that is intended to raise breast cancer awareness.

The tailgate will start at 6 p.m. tonight in the Gorges Atrium. CAB will also be handing out free pink-out shirts.

The volleyball team will be playing its pink-out game following the tailgate at 7 p.m. against the Uni-versity of Texas - Permian Basin.

back with large deficits.“The data that the Cabinet had, said

the proposal would not allow us to pay many of our bills,” Austin said.

He said expenses like enrollment increases, new faculty and staff hires, increases to faculty and staff salaries, and the costs of maintaining the fa-cilities are such that the university must maintain its financial flexibility to keep up, and it is much harder to stay flexible when tuition is frozen for a freshman class for four years.

He also said that a fixed tuition plan may keep tuition the same for a stu-dent for their time at Newman, but it would require a huge tuition increase on each new freshman class to make up for the loss revenue that the smaller yearly increases account for.

“You either have to put huge 20 to 25 percent increases on those students or you don’t have the revenue,” Austin said.

Gollhofer said though that proposal was ultimately denied, the Cabinet did make some concessions that will ben-efit the student body.

He said there will now be a student representative on the tuition advisory board who can voice concerns and report back to the student body. The Cabinet will also now post the reason-ing for tuition increases on the email that is sent out to the student body re-garding increases.

They will also put information about tuition increases over the last few years so that students can see what sort of tuition increases they might ex-perience, as well as comparisons to other schools’ tuition increases.

“One of the claims we make as a university is that we raise it less than other schools so why not back that up with a comparison to Benedictine or KU,” Gollhofer said.

Gollhofer said the important thing to take from this decision is not that the students lost, but that the discus-

sion has been started and student voic-es heard.

“I want to encourage students not to give up or anything,” he said.

He also encouraged students to go to the Town Hall meeting at noon on Tuesday in the Alumni Center on the second floor of the Dugan Library.

“Go to the Town Hall meeting. Bring it up. Ask the questions that you have,” he said. “We’ve started the dia-logue, but we need to keep it going.”

The annual Town Hall meeting is an opportunity for students to have an open forum discussion with Presi-dent Carrocci and her Cabinet, which includes Austin, Gantz, V.P. for Enroll-ment Management Norm Jones, V.P. for University Advancement J.V. John-ston, and Athletics Director and V.P. for Student Affairs Vic Trilli. Pizza will be provided.

dents can come to the event, smash a pumpkin and eat some chili. The best chili will be awarded with a prize.

The second day of events will in-clude CAB’s Pumpkin Painting, start-ing at 2:30 p.m. outside of the Student Center, where students can decorate a pumpkin with paint and accessories in any way they choose.

The next event of the day will be SAAC’s first ever Halloween Fun Run/Walk 5K on campus. Students, staff, faculty and community members are encouraged to put on a costume and participate to raise money for Make-a-Wish Foundation. It is $10 for stu-dents, $20 for adults, and free for chil-dren under the age of 10. The run will start at 7 p.m. Prizes will be awarded for best times and best costumes.

The week of events will end with Boo Bash, held from 7 - 9 p.m. in the basement of Sacred Heart. Boo Bash is a Halloween themed party involving all hall events from RHA, a haunted hallway with actors from the Newman Theater club and game show events put on by the Board Games club.

Hemel said she is most excited for the final event because they received such positive feedback from last year’s bash.

“We take the time to partner with several organizations on campus to re-ally make the event a night to remem-ber,” Hemel said.

Student Life Coordinator Mic Brun-ner said he is looking forward to Hal-loweek as a whole.

“This is a great opportunity for our

entire community to come together and have a ton of fun,” Brunner said.

If students have any question about upcoming events Brunner said they can check the CAB Facebook page, look for Halloweek flyers on cam-pus, or check the Newman University Events app.

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Town Hall meeting

The annual Town Hall meeting will be held at noon on Tuesday in the Alumni Center.

All are welcome to come and participate in the open discussion with President Noreen Carrocci and her Cabinet. Free pizza will be provided.

Trilli said that the Newman made the health center part of its strategic plan to offer students additional ser-vices. He said that the administration hasn’t nailed down any specifics as they are focusing mostly on obtaining funding. However, Trilli said discus-sion about potentially involving the Newman Nursing Department was visited.

“Why wouldn’t you? It’s part of their training,” he said. “Somebody has to be in the health center. We have access to students that need to do that.

We just have to put it together. It’s a great opportunity to provide addi-tional services to students and it also incorporates some of our own doctors and health profession people who are out there to help us with this project.”

Assistant Professor of Nursing and parent, Dana Rose said she believes Newman would benefit from an on campus health facility. She said as a parent, she thinks Newman students would benefit from housing a facil-ity for all students, but especially to help aid students who aren’t from the Wichita are or who have a chronic ill-

ness.“We have a lot of students from oth-

er parts of the country and different parts of the world,” she said. “We’re always looking at having vaccinations for living in the residence halls and physicals for different things. So those kinds of things are not available unless our students actually go to their own physicians. And with chronic illness especially, we need to know that espe-cially for students who are from other areas. It would be a nice place to have all of that in once place.”

MONDAYWhat: Taekwondo Take-downs When: 7 p.m.Where: the gym

TUESDAYWhat: Pumpking Smashing & Chili Cook-offWhen: 4 p.m.Where: the Quad

HALLOWEEK EVENTSTHURSDAYWhat: Boo Bash When: 7 - 9 p.m.Where: basement of Sacred Heart

WEDNESDAYWhat: Pumpkin PaintingWhen: 2:30 p.m.Where: outside the Student Center

What: Halloween Fun Run/Walk 5KWhen: 7 p.m.Where: On campus

The Newman Studies Program class “Fire in the Voice,” will be show-ing the 1982 independent film “Losing Ground,” in a special event at 7 p.m. on Monday in the Jabara Blackbox. The event will be one of the only times it has been made viewable to the pub-lic since its very limited release in the 1980s, said Christopher Fox, associate professor of philosophy, who is teach-ing the NSP class “Fire in the Voice.”

This film is only one of the films that Fox’s class has watched this se-mester, though the others are much more widely known, such as the Mel Brooks’ comedic hit “Blazing Sad-dles,” the 1971 blaxploitation, action film “Shaft” and the 1964 film “Noth-ing But a Man,” which was selected for preservation by the Library of Con-gress.

The class has not just been watch-ing films, though. Fox said they have been soaking up various cultural me-dia of the last 55 years, including mu-sic, television, art, literature and even a “Hip-hop textbook” entitled “That’s the Joint!: The Hip-hop Studies Read-er.” He said the goal of the class is to

come to an understanding of African-American identity from 1960 to 2015, and the film “Losing Ground” shows a part of that identity that never got as much attention as stuff like “The Cos-by Show.”

“It’s about African-American intel-lectuals and artists who are trying to figure out what it’s like to have an ar-tistic experience,” Fox said. “They are figuring out what it means to be free as intellectuals and artists, not just free as political selfs.”

Senior psychology major A.J. Swan-son said she’s really enjoyed the class and that it has opened her eyes to problems that she hasn’t had to face in her daily life.

“Growing up in Midwest Kansas we don’t see a lot of these things that affect the racial division between black and white, and it’s kind of interesting to see it in a different perspective,” she said. “It’s kind of an eye-opener.”

Senior communications major Shaunice Robinson, who is also taking “Fire in the Voice” and who is original-ly from Seattle, said it has been inter-esting for her, as an African-American student, to be a part of the discussion in a class with only one other African-American student.

“It’s something different and new, but I enjoy it,” she said.

Fox said he wanted to bring this specific film to a wider audience than just the NSP class because of its im-portance in cinematic history as one of the first films by an African-American woman and because of the fact that it has never had a wide theatrical re-lease.

He said it’s currently only been screened in a few places, including a weeklong release in February at the Lincoln Center.

“It’s kind of a lost work,” he said. “As far as I know, we’re the only peo-ple in Wichita who have it.”

Swanson and Robinson said other great reasons come to the event are the film’s “great cheesy love plot,” the humor and the beautiful cinematogra-phy, as well as the discussion that will take place after the film.

“If you want to feel like you’ve done something intellectual and pro-ductive this semester, come have a dis-cussion,” Swanson said.

“Losing Ground” will begin at 7 p.m. on Monday in the Jabara Black-box and will be followed by a discus-sion of the film. The film’s runtime is 86 minutes. All are welcome to attend.

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MAKING UP FOR LOST GROUND

By JACOB HOBBIEOnline Editor

‘LOSING GROUND’ a 1982 independent film, will be shown at 7 p.m. in Jabara Blackbox on Monday. Courtesy Photo

By JOHN DENNYEditor-in-Chief

Newman to show indie film ‘Losing Ground’

Welcome back to the Tech Tip of the Week! This week, I’m going to hopefully help you with one of the WORST things a college student has to experience: writing papers. An experience that is much worse if a professor decides to give you a pa-per that’s due in less than a week, about a book that was assigned only a week ago... but I digress. I’ve found some technology that should be able to help you in your time of need, like when your paper is due the next day and you haven’t started it, and you are freaking out, and the room is spinning, and – GASP…

Anyway, the first thing you have to do to write a paper is get the re-search done. I mentioned this little app the last time, but I’m going to recommend it again, especially since I’ve found it to be even more useful since I last recommended it. Evernote is an absolutely amazing tool, especially when you combine it with their Web Clipper. When-ever I’m looking up things online to write about, and I find something particularly good, I just click the Web Clipper and it automatically imports the text and pictures from the webpage. None of the junk, just the stuff you need to read later for your paper. Then, when you’ve added it to Evernote, all you need to do is do a search for the thing that was interesting, and you can jump to it immediately. Evernote makes finding research material fast and much less of a headache, and who doesn’t need that in their life.

Now, you need to write the pa-per. But you, like most Millenials with world at your fingertips, are very easily distracted. Why would you ever write a paper when you can watch YouTube, listen to Spo-tify, play Steam games, etc? You need a place where you can focus on the actual text, and worry a lot less about the format of the paper. You just need to put text into being.

Tech Tips: Apps for writing papers

NSP class focuses on African-American history

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2015 A&E 4

Question of the Week

Sophomore Harvey

What are you going to be for Halloween?

“A Ghostbuster”

Emily

Senior Love

“The red Power Ranger”

Jalen

Sophomores

Farney

“Eggsy and Roxy from Kingsman”

Trevor

“Bob from ‘Bob’s Burgers’”

“Shaggy from ‘Scooby Doo’”

Senior HarperKris

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Hangar of Horrors: The haunt to watch for next year

Maize Hangar of Horrors is one of the newer haunts in the Wichita area, so I was eager to try something new and relatively unheard of.

Which made the experience a little more nerve-wracking.

Hangar of Horrors is located in Maize, not far from Field of Screams at 8001 W. 45th St. N. Almost the en-tire haunt takes place inside an actual airport.

I’ve always been a fan of indoor haunts because being an art person, I appreciate the aesthetic work that goes into them. This haunt in particular did just that. It included a lot of scenes reminiscent of various scary movies such as “Halloween” and “House of 1,000 Corpses.”

Scenes were very well crafted and

detailed. Lighting was a huge compo-nent. And although I was scared, the art nerd inside me was like, “WHOA! Look at that lighting! Look at that de-tail!”

There’s a big difference in indoor and outdoor haunts. And I think in-door haunts are a bit trickier to put together because they generally tend to be a hit or miss because of the de-tail that has to go into setting up the atmosphere. I definitely think that Hangar of Horrors is very good at doing up just that. It’s so much more difficult to make a room feel uncom-fortable, scary or grotesque than it is to play on the natural fear that tends to come from being in an open field out-side in the dark.

However, the haunt only took about 5-6 minutes to go through. That was a big disappointment because I was hav-ing so much fun being stalked by Mi-

chael Myers and chased by zombies. My least favorite part of the haunt was at the very end and played not only with the visual of death, but also the smell. And I kid you not, I gagged.

I wish it was longer, however, I end-ed up chatting with the creative direc-tion team after the haunt was over and they told me that they actually put the whole haunt together in a total of nine days. After receiving that information, I was incredibly impressed.

Proceeds from the haunt support the Maize Airport Flight Academy, The Commemorative Air Force (Jay-hawk Wing), and MOXI Junction. They told me they received a phone call from the owners asking if they wanted to take the reins on the haunt and they decided to go for it.

They both said they were already working on planning next year’s haunt. I think Hangar of Horrors is a

haunt to watch for next year. I know this is kind of lofty, but I think it abso-lutely has the potential to blow Field of Screams out of the water strictly be-cause of the detail and dedication that went into this haunt that was put to-gether in nine days.

But honestly, $17 for 6 minutes just isn’t worth the money.

Check it out next year.

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devilish detailswhat: Maize Hangar of Horrors

when: Every Thursday, Friday and Saturday through Nov. 1

where: 8001 W. 45th St. N.

how much: $17 Friday and Satur-days, $15 Thursdays and Sundays

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sportsTHURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2015

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MEN’S SOCCER (8-5-1) WOMEN’S SOCCER (3-7-2)

PAST GAMESOct. 15vs. Lubbock Christian, W 3-2

Oct. 17vs. Texas-Permian Basin, W 3-2

UPCOMING GAMESTonight at 5 p.m.at St. Mary’s

Saturday at noonat Texas A&M International

PAST GAMESOct. 15vs. Lubbock Christian, L 0-1 Oct. 17vs. Texas Permian-Basin, L 0-1

UPCOMING GAMESTonight at 7:30 p.m.at St. Mary’s

Saturday at 2:30 p.m.at Texas A&M International

this week in sports...PAST GAMESOct. 10at West Texas A&M, L 0-3

Oct. 15vs. Arkansas Fort-Smith, L 1-3 UPCOMING GAMESTonight at 7 p.m.vs. Texas-Permian Basin

Saturday at 11 a.m.vs. Lubbock Christian

PAST RACESOct. 10Fort Hays State Tiger OpenMen: 13thWomen: 11th

UPCOMING GAMESSaturday, Oct. 24at Heartland Conference ChampionshipsLaredo, Texas

VOLLEYBALL (17-6) CROSS COUNTRY

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Tennis player displays leadership, successAriana Raga shares experiences with NU, family, and tennis

tennis in the Unites States, she said she began to find more aspects of the game that she enjoyed.

“Initially I liked tennis because it was a sport that I could do on my own,” Raga said. “I just had to count on myself. Back in my country, you just play for yourself, you don’t play for clubs or schools or anything like

that. But once I got here, I guess I began to like the fact that it was dif-ferent and you could do it as a team and you could work together and do things for one another. You get to be a part of a team and experience that dynamic.”

for the team since her start at New-man three years ago.

“She bring a lot of enthusiasm and she’s a good leader. A very good leader,” Augspurger said.

Raga said she got her start in tennis back home in Venezuela around the age of 8.

“In Venezuela, we don’t have clubs or anything like that,” Raga said. “So I first started playing just in a local tennis academy. My father always played and my brother and I sort of picked it up from him.”

Raga said she began taking tennis more seriously when she realized it could be her ticket to cheaper educa-tion in the states.

“Tennis was a way to get out of the country and have a better education,” she said. “And so my brother and I both started to play it competitively.”

Raga and her younger brother were both recruited out of Venezuela to attend Cowley. After graduation, Raga’s brother chose Bethany to finish out his tennis career and Raga decid-ed on Newman.

“I liked the school,” she said. “I liked that it was Catholic. And I really liked the coach.”

As Raga spent more time playing

Newman’s women’s tennis team has a senior on the squad that is not only a great leader and successful on the courts, but who is also pretty dead set on petting every animal within a 25-mile radius of her.

Senior Ariana Raga took first in the singles No. 4 flight at the Collin County Community College Tourna-ment over the weekend of Oct. 9-10.

Raga, a three-year member of the Lady Jet’s squad, was 4-0 on the weekend and defeated two Division I players on her way to the tournament title. Raga also competed in the tour-nament’s doubles division in the No. 1 flight and finished second with her teammate and doubles partner, junior Katie Stoianova.

Raga is originally from Maracay, Venezuela but came to the states on a tennis scholarship at Cowley County Community College.

Raga was recruited by Newman Head Coach Stella Augspurger and has been playing at NU since graduat-ing from Cowley in 2013.

Augspurger said that Raga has been a source of energy and optimism

ARIANA RAGA, RIGHT, placed first in the singles No. 4 flight at the Cowley Com-munity College Tournament on Oct. 9-10. Hank Griggs, Photo Editor

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By DELANEY HIEGERTManaging Editor

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2015 SPORTS 6

Softball closes against Division I Cowgirls

SOPHOMORE ALEX PATTON shoots for the pin on a par-3 during the Lady Jets’ final tournament of the fall season. Patton placed 11th. Courtesy Photo

Lady Jets conclude exhibition schedule by traveling to Oklahoma State

The Newman University men’s and women’s golf teams are wrap-ping up their seasons this month, placing in the top 10 at their last tournaments.

The Jets finished fourth at the Newman Fall Invitational on Oct. 12 and 13 and Crestview Country Club. The team put together their best round with a 298 for a three-round score of 911 (+47).

Senior James Bolton played through an injury, shooting an even par of 72 in his final round and a 1-under-par in his second round. Freshman Lee Maddox placed 13th overall and freshman Alex Gorman placed 27th with senior James Horns-by right behind him placing 28th.

The Jets will finish out their season on Monday and Tuesday where they

will play The Classic at The Tribute in Colony, Texas.

The Lady Jets finished out their season this past weekend at the DBU Final Event tournament, where they placed eighth.

Sophomore Alex Patton and Fresh-man Imkeleen Meyer finished in the top 20 at the tournament. Patton finished in 11th place with a 1-under-par 143 for two rounds, shooting a 1-under-par 71 in her final round and an even par in the first round. Meyer finished in 13th place with a 1-under-par 145, shooting a 3-over par 75 in the second round and a 2-under-par 70 in her first round.

Senior Courtney Zietsman finished with a 160, senior Josie Jenkins fin-ished with a 161 and Ximena Name, who played as an individual, finished with a 158.

The Jets’ and Lady Jets’ spring sea-son will begin again in February.

By COURTNEY SARTINStaff Writer

Augspurger said that it’s apparent Raga enjoys the team atmosphere and strives to be a good teammate.

“She always wants to get some-thing extra for the team. She doesn’t just do it for her,” Augspurger said. “She likes to put things on her shoul-ders and help the whole team out.”

Raga doesn’t just look out for her teammates on the court, she advo-cates for them off the court as well.

Augspurger said Raga will always try to get a little something extra out of her, whether it’s a team activity or a special trip to Olive Garden.

“She loves animals. Once we were stopped at a gas station and there was a little piglet. She had to get out of the

From “Raga” on Page 5 car and run up and pet it. Everywhere we go, she does that,” Augspurger said. “So one time last season we pass by these little horses and Ariana goes, ‘Coach, if I win this tournament, can the team go horseback riding?’ I agreed and dang it if she didn’t win that tournament. So I owe her and the team horseback riding before she graduates.”

Raga, who was competing at the No. 6 or No. 7 spot in singles last spring, is set to be in the middle of the lineup this spring.

“It’s all coming together for her,” Augspurger said. “If it stays that way I think her spring is just going to be great. If she keeps herself healthy, I think the way she’s playing, there’s no stopping her.“

Newman’s softball program closed its fall season with an exhibition competition against NCAA Division-I program Oklahoma State University over the weekend.

The Lady Jets traveled to Stillwa-ter and played 10 innings against the Cowgirls who placed sixth in the Big 12 Conference in 2015. Newman lost 15-0.

“We are pretty proud of how our players competed considering the level of competition that they faced,”

head coach Janice Esses said. “It will probably be the highest level of com-petition that we face and we should have confidence that we can compete with the toughest teams in our con-ference.”

The women allowed 15 runs throughout the 10 innings of play, however they held the Cowgirls to seven runs in seven innings, includ-ing a span of four scoreless innings.

“Pitching wise we are pretty excited,” Esses said. “I think that we need to get better at hitting our spots and our command of our pitches, but pitching was pretty impressive.”

The Lady Jets opened the game

with runners on first and third with nobody out, however they failed to capitalize on the golden opportunity.

“I thought we put the ball in play pretty well,” Esses said. “We only had eight strike outs in our 10 innings of play and we are pretty proud of that.”

Sophomore outfielder Taylor Mannis, who was the lead off bat-ter against OSU, said that the results show a sign of things to come.

“Even though the score does not look very good, I think it shows that we will win a lot of games in our conference this year,” Mannis said. “It shows that we will be able to compete this year and that we have girls who

never give up and don’t step back from challenges rather than squirm away from them.”

Now at the conclusion of the fall season, Mannis hopes that the team picks up in the spring where they are leaving off currently.

“We’ve made a lot of improvement this fall,” Mannis said. “I want to hit the ground running.”

Softball opens its 2016 season on Feb. 5 at the Southern Arkansas Tour-nament in Magnolia, Ark. Their home opener is Feb. 27 at 2 p.m. as they host Southwest Baptist University.

By WESLEY WILLIAMSSports Editor

NU Golf teams are taking their final strokes Men’s and women’s golf teams finish seasons out strong

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For those of you who don’t know me too well, I’m on the Newman softball team.

About two and a half weeks ago I broke my foot slid-ing into third base at practice. Of course, I tried to walk it off and when I couldn’t I definitely felt like a giant baby. On top of that, a teammate and coach carried me out to the parking lot to go back to campus. And that humilia-tion was probably worse than the pain of actually breaking my foot.

From early on, my parents instilled in me the importance of a tough atti-tude. At age 4, I played a little league soccer game on a broken ankle. So, yeah, sucking it up is sort of a part of my being at this point.

When I got on campus after practice that day, the trainers gave

me crutches and said not to put any weight on my foot until I got X-rays. I had those taken the following day and was anxiously awaiting the re-sults.

In my head, I pictured the conver-sation with the trainers going some-thing like this: “Oh, Delaney, we got the results back. Nothing’s broken or even torn. You were just being a big sissy about it all. Rehab it for a week or two and you’re good to go!”

That, however, is not what hap-pened. They showed me the picture of my foot and pointed out the area I had broken. They said I’d be out for at least six to eight more weeks and I would be on the crutches for most of them.

When any athlete gets news like that, they want to punch something. Or a lot of things. Or everything. Yeah, definitely everything.

But I took a deep breath, reminded myself it was just the fall season, calmly crutched out to my car and screamed into my jacket for a good minute.

Luckily, I got off the crutches only a week and a half into my recovery. It turns out I broke a different bone than they originally thought and I was allowed to bear weight on my foot as long as I had a walking cast on at all times. This was great, great news because it only took me about two days on those things for me to want to throw them into a tree.

The most frustrating part about being an injured athlete, for me, was my inability to do things for myself. I couldn’t grab my own dumbbells in the weight room. I couldn’t carry my glove to practice. I couldn’t even throw my own trash away in the cafeteria.

It already sucks having to sit there and watch practice. But what made it worse was the fact that I couldn’t do anything. I wasn’t just incapable of playing softball, I was incapable of doing daily tasks in my life.

I had to ask for help more times in that week and half than I think I have in the past three years of my life. It was borderline torture.

On top of that, every single person I saw on campus came up to me with this look in their eyes of just complete and utter pity. They’d say, “Oh my gosh Delaneyyy! What happened, are you okay!?” in this voice that sound-ed like they were talking to a small wounded animal that was bleeding out in their arms. I’d respond with a brief, “I broke my foot,” which was then followed by a barrage of ques-tions in that same tone that made me want to gag.

Yes, I know these people were just genuinely concerned about me and wanted to make sure I was okay.

I don’t want you to take this the wrong way - I’m glad there are peo-ple who care about me and I really do appreciate the concern. But at the mo-ment, it just added to the whole I’m-helpless-and-everyone-knows-it thing I had going for me, which I HATED.

I have roughly five weeks left in this walking cast (Hopefully less, I’m drinking a lot of milk. Like ungodly amounts of milk.) and then I’ll be able

opinionTHURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2015

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Delaney Hiegert

This boot was made for sulking.

Once upon time in the far-gone year of 2003 on a misty October day when I was in third grade, my par-ents answered my prayers by taking me to a PetSmart to meet-and-greet dogs from PALS Animal Rescue.

We were there to see a particular Shetland sheep-dog named Mac, because those are my favorite dogs. However, Mac was very popular and getting a lot of attention. I noticed an-other more timid Shetland sheepdog being lead around by one of the PALS employees. Small, cute, and shy, the little dog drew me in and I felt odd-ly connected to the little guy. That’s

when I met Buddy, who was my best friend for the next 10 years.

The big obvious spoiler is that this story ends in the same way as most dog stories, and the summer after my freshman year here at Newman, we had to put Buddy down. It was one of the toughest moments in my life. Holding my best friend as a vet inject-ed him with that pink goo that took his life away, feeling Buddy’s breath quicken then slow, his muscles tense then relax, his soul leave his furry little body, it was heartbreaking. After 10 years of companionship and love - that unconditional love you can only get from a pet - and Buddy being a huge part of my life, he passed. And that left a void. A hole. Something not every-one understands.

Losing a friend, a family member, or another human being is tragic. It’s awful. It affects all of us and is inevita-

ble. But not everyone experiences the loss of a pet. And some people do not understand how much pain it brings. It hurts just as much as losing a close friend or a family member, because to us animal lovers and pet owners, our furry, feathered, or scaly friends are family.

There’s a phrase: “To the whole world you might just be one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world.” And with animals that is absolutely true.

Humans live exceptionally longer than most domestic animals that we choose to have for companions. Which means, we have the capacity to form many bonds and friendships in our lifetime. In our expected 80+ years of life, we will go on a roller coaster ride with many twists, turns, ups and downs. But for a dog or cat the roller coaster is one big drop. A rise and then

a fall. Often, we are their whole life. They are along for the ride, but un-fortunately their ride does not last as long as yours. Still, they make the ride a whole lot better.

So please, I beg you, if you know someone who has lost a pet, never make them feel like they can just re-place their pet, because they can’t. You can’t just buy a new dog and expect it to take the place or fill the void of a loved one you just lost. Time heals all wounds. Simple kindness and respect to another’s feelings is all the person needs. Because they are dealing with a great loss.

And I say to Buddy, for making my adolescence a much better ride...I am eternally grateful. To the Shetland sheepdog with one floppy ear, ter-rible breath, and the biggest bed-hog I’ve ever known, I say thank you and I miss you. Love you Bud.

...Ellipses...with...justin...ralph..................................

Justin Ralph

Love ya, Bud

The unnecessary struggles of the injured athlete

My dog Bud: Pet, bed-hog, carpet-wetter, best friend

See “Athlete” on Page 8

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to start to work my way back into full practice.

The point I want to make here is this: Athlete’s hate being injured. Our sports consume our lives. When I have to sit out and be a bystander in my own life, don’t keep bringing it up in the only other areas of my life that aren’t affected by it. That’s like rub-bing salt in the wound.

So, for these last five weeks, completely ignore my foot. Act like the heavy, clunky, black monstrosity that is my walking cast just isn’t even there. Ask me about my classes, ask me about the paper, ask me about the Fall Out Boy/Awolnation concert coming to town, just please don’t ask me about my foot. And for Pete’s sake, stop using that voice that’s just dripping in pity for me. It really does make me want to gag.

From “Athlete” on Page 7This is where you turn to Draft.

Draft is actually a web application you can find at www.draftin.com. It pres-ents a clear, blank page where you can type out your ideas without distrac-tion – In fact, I’m typing up this article in it right now – Not to mention that it auto saves every time you stop typing, which allows you to be a little lazier, a little less paranoid, and a lot happier. Plus, if you ever need to have your paper reviewed, and it’s the day be-fore, you can hire a professional editor to look over your paper for 6 dollars. With that said, you should use the free tutoring service at Newman because they’re fantastic. But everyone gets rushed sometimes so no judgement… Go check out Newman’s tutoring ser-vice, seriously.

Finally you’ve written your paper. But, you’re too proud to have anyone else read it, or you literally have less

than 24 hours until it’s due – Likely the latter – Enter Hemingway. Heming-way is named after the famous author Ernest Hemingway who wrote many books in his lifetime, including “For Whom the Bell Tolls.” All you have to do is take the text you wrote and paste it into the program. The program will then analyze what might be wrong grammatically in your paper, includ-ing use of passive voice.

I know I struggle with passive voice a lot, so it’s been a huge help for me. The program is 10 dollars, but at least it’s a one time purchase and it doesn’t cost a ridiculous amount of money. In any case, it’s always a good idea to edit after you’ve written until 6 a.m. with no sleep and you start to garble your wodrs...

Anyway, I hope these tips help to make your sleepless nights of paper writing a little bit more bearable. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to work on my own paper. Hobbie out!

From “Tech Tips” on Page 3